THE SON AND THE SPIRIT: THE PROMISE OF SPIRIT CHRISTOLOGY IN TRADITIONAL TRINITARIAN AND CHRISTOL... more THE SON AND THE SPIRIT: THE PROMISE OF SPIRIT CHRISTOLOGY IN TRADITIONAL TRINITARIAN AND CHRISTOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Kyle David Claunch, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017 Chair: Dr. Bruce A. Ware This dissertation evaluates various contemporary Spirit-Christology proposals. Herein, Spirit Christology is defined as an approach to Christology that affords paradigmatic prominence to the Holy Spirit for understanding traditional Christological categories. Contemporary Spirit-Christology proposals occur along a spectrum of faithfulness to Nicene Trinitarianism and Chalcedonian Christology. While modifications to traditional formulae (implicit or explicit) are commonplace in contemporary proposals of Spirit Christology, it is the thesis of this dissertation that such modifications are neither helpful nor necessary. Rather, Spirit Christology can and should offer a pneumatological enrichment of traditional Christology and a boon to Christian devotion. Such a model will n...
The anti-Arian polemics of the fourth century eventually gave rise to a consensus Trinitarian gra... more The anti-Arian polemics of the fourth century eventually gave rise to a consensus Trinitarian grammar, often referred to as pro-Nicene theology,1 by which the unity of God is understood in terms of one divine essence common to all three persons. Understood as a consequence of this account of divine unity, the doctrine of the inseparable operations of the Trinity ad extra contends that all of the works of the Triune God with respect to the creation are works of all three persons of the Godhead.2 This doctrine, often expressed by the Latin axiom, opera trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa 3 has been a staple of orthodox Trinitarian theology for centuries. Statements and defense of the doctrine can be found among the Church fathers of the East (e.g. Athanasius and Gregory of Nyssa) and the West (e.g. Hilary of Poitiers and Augustine) as they engaged in anti-Arian polemical discourse. The doctrine is later expressed and defended by the medieval giant Thomas Aquinas and is fully embraced by...
THE SON AND THE SPIRIT: THE PROMISE OF SPIRIT CHRISTOLOGY IN TRADITIONAL TRINITARIAN AND CHRISTOL... more THE SON AND THE SPIRIT: THE PROMISE OF SPIRIT CHRISTOLOGY IN TRADITIONAL TRINITARIAN AND CHRISTOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Kyle David Claunch, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017 Chair: Dr. Bruce A. Ware This dissertation evaluates various contemporary Spirit-Christology proposals. Herein, Spirit Christology is defined as an approach to Christology that affords paradigmatic prominence to the Holy Spirit for understanding traditional Christological categories. Contemporary Spirit-Christology proposals occur along a spectrum of faithfulness to Nicene Trinitarianism and Chalcedonian Christology. While modifications to traditional formulae (implicit or explicit) are commonplace in contemporary proposals of Spirit Christology, it is the thesis of this dissertation that such modifications are neither helpful nor necessary. Rather, Spirit Christology can and should offer a pneumatological enrichment of traditional Christology and a boon to Christian devotion. Such a model will n...
The anti-Arian polemics of the fourth century eventually gave rise to a consensus Trinitarian gra... more The anti-Arian polemics of the fourth century eventually gave rise to a consensus Trinitarian grammar, often referred to as pro-Nicene theology,1 by which the unity of God is understood in terms of one divine essence common to all three persons. Understood as a consequence of this account of divine unity, the doctrine of the inseparable operations of the Trinity ad extra contends that all of the works of the Triune God with respect to the creation are works of all three persons of the Godhead.2 This doctrine, often expressed by the Latin axiom, opera trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa 3 has been a staple of orthodox Trinitarian theology for centuries. Statements and defense of the doctrine can be found among the Church fathers of the East (e.g. Athanasius and Gregory of Nyssa) and the West (e.g. Hilary of Poitiers and Augustine) as they engaged in anti-Arian polemical discourse. The doctrine is later expressed and defended by the medieval giant Thomas Aquinas and is fully embraced by...
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